New Novel Takes Fresh Look at Somalia, Gets Five Stars at Amazon.com
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New Novel Takes Fresh Look at Somalia, Gets Five Stars at Amazon.com
Africa, big game hunting, Army style: Dangerous Game, a new action-adventure novel by Don Hollway, updates the classic safari tale for a violent new Africa
York, PA — This isn’t Hemingway’s Africa. This is the Africa of the new milliennium. Violent. Drug-ridden. Corrupt. Overpopulated and overrun with bandits and poachers. Famine and war, AIDS and AK-47s.
Dangerous Game, a new adventure novel by author Don Hollway, runs the classic safari tale through a gauntlet of modern-day marauders, mercenaries and militia. Amazon reviewers are giving it five stars, calling it “gripping,” and “a movie in the making,” though “not for the politically correct.”
More than ten years after the aborted peacekeeping mission chronicled in Black Hawk Down, Somalia remains a failed state — an anarchy of battling warlords, a vacationland for Islamic terrorists, and a combat front in the War on Terror. Dangerous Game examines the aftermath of botched nation-building and regime change, through the eyes of a Mogadishu veteran turned white hunter.
Not, however, at the expense of action and adventure. “Dangerous Game owes less to Hemingway and Robert Ruark than to Wilbur Smith and H. Rider Haggard,” admits Hollway, an amateur historian and Africa buff previously published in magazines including Aviation, Military History and Scientific American, and anthologized in hardcover. “There’s food for thought, but the characters are generally too busy fighting for their lives to chat about it.”
He got the idea for the novel from an article about an outlaw guide service taking hunters into live war zones after the ultimate quarry: man. With his expertise in military history (he interviewed Randy Cunningham when the disgraced congressman was better known as a Navy fighter ace) and his hobby in the shooting sports, the author realized he was perfectly placed to pen the next step in the evolution of the safari tale.
He seems to have hit the bulls-eye. Among many enthusiastic international reviewers, one South African said Dangerous Game “captures certain themes of Africa rather accurately…the dust and the chase are real, and tangible to any person who has Africa in their soul.”
Dangerous Game by Don Hollway (ISBN 0741429497) is available through Borders, B. Dalton, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0741429497. List price $16.95.